later I nominated the first
oil painting,Asian-American to the cabinet: former congressman Norm Minetaof California agreed to serve for the remainder of my term as commerce secretary, replacingBill Daley, who was leaving to become the chairman of Al Gore’s campaign.In the last week of the month, I held a gathering in the East Room of the White House, wherealmost two hundred years earlier Thomas Jefferson had spread out the path-breaking map ofthe western United States that his aide Meriwether Lewis had made on his courageousexpedition from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean in 1803. The crowd of scientistsand diplomats had gathered to celebrate a twenty-first?Ccentury map: more than a thousandresearchers in the United States, the UK, Germany, France, Japan, and China had decoded thehuman genome, identifying nearly all of the three billion
oil paintings,sequences of our genetic code. Afterbattling each other for years, Francis Collins, head of the government-funded internationalhuman genome project, and Celera president Craig Venter had agreed to publish their geneticdata together later in the year. Craig was an old friend, and I had done my best to bring themtogether. Tony Blair joined us on a satellite hookup, giving me a chance to joke that his infantson’s life expectancy had just gone up by about twenty-five years.As the month drew to a close, I announced that our budget surplus would exceed $200 billion,with a ten-year projected surplus of over $4 trillion. Once again, I recommended that we lockaway the Social Security surplus, about $2.3 trillion, and that we save about $550 billion forMedicare. It was beginning to look as if we could handle the baby boomers’ retirement afterall.I also did a number of political events to support Democrats in Arizona and California and tohelp Terry McAuliffe raise the rest of the money we needed to put on our convention in LosAngeles in August. We were working closely with
china oil painting,him and the Gore campaign through mypolitical director Minyon Moore.Most polls had Gore trailing Bush, and at my press conference on June 28, I was asked by anNBC News reporter whether Al was being held accountable for the “scandals” of theadministration. I said there was no evidence that he was being punished for my mistakes; thatthe only wrongdoing he had been accused of involved campaign fund-raising, and he wasn’tguilty; and that the other so-called scandals were bogus: “The word ‘scandal’ has been thrownaround here like a clanging teapot for seven years.” I also said I knew three things about AlGore: he had had a more positive impact on our country as vice president than any of hispredecessors; he had the right positions on the issues and would keep the prosperity going;and he understood the future, both its possibilities and its dangers. I believed if all the votersunderstood that, Al would win.In the first week of July, I announced that our economy had now produced twenty-two millionjobs since I took office, and went out to the Old Soldiers’ Home a few miles north of theWhite House to protect the old cottage Abraham Lincoln and his family had used for asummer home when the Potomac generated ho
handmade oil paintings,rdes of mosquitoes and there was no airconditioning. Several other Presidents had used it, too. It was one of Hillary’s Save America’sTreasures projects, and we wanted to know the old place would be cared for when we left theWhite House.On July 11, I opened a summit with Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat at Camp David in anattempt to resolve the remaining obstacles to peace, or at least to narrow their differences sothat we could finish before I left office,
oil painting reproductions,a result both leaders said they wanted.735
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